Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 17 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
§ 883h. Employment of public vessels
Statutory text
The President is authorized to cause to be employed such of the public vessels as he deems it expedient to employ, and to give such instructions for regulating their conduct as he deems proper in order to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 80–504 § 8 · 61 Stat. 787
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 883h
(Aug. 6, 1947, ch. 504, § 8, 61 Stat. 788.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 6, 1947, ch. 504, § 8, 61 Stat. 788.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 8. The President is authorized to cause to be employed such of the public vessels as he deems it expedient to employ, and to give such instructions for regulating their conduct as he deems proper in order to carry out the provisions of this Act.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Executive Documents
Delegation of Functions
Functions of President under this section delegated to Secretary of Commerce, see section 1(l) of Ex. Ord. No. 11023, , 27 F.R. 5131, as amended, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.
Credits
(Aug. 6, 1947, ch. 504, § 8, 61 Stat. 788.)